Joyce Hilda Banda

After serving as a senior minister in UDF DPP and People's Party (PP) governments Mia quit politics in 2014 after then President Joyce Banda denied him the opportunity of being her running mate (AC Vol 55 No 3 Scandals to dominate polls)...

Facing myriad corruption charges from her time as head of state ex-President Joyce Banda has held out an olive branch to her bitter rival President Peter Mutharika from her self-imposed exile in the United States...

'We want him to guarantee us not to arrest our leader Joyce Banda when she returns...

The electorate in the meantime has decided that President Peter Mutharika is no more deserving of their support than his deeply unpopular predecessor Joyce Banda or her own forerunner Bingu wa Mutharika the incumbent's late brother...

Lutepo the former financial boss of the People's Party has always insisted the fraud was carried out on behalf of ex-President Joyce Banda's PP of which he was Director of Operations and that he took direction from her...